Acrothele coriacea

Acrothele coriacea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrothelePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrothelidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 900 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.8 Mya and 482.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484.3 Mya482.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Acrothele coriacea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Acrothele coriacea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Acrothele coriacea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acrothele coriacea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Acrothele coriacea

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Acrothele coriacea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcrothele through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnarsson 1876